Conference 7.286::digital

    Qurterly reports are normally issued after (during) the third week of
    the month following the close of the quarter.
    
    > Anybody has any idea will it be in RED or in black?
    
    Quarterly reports are typically black print on white paper; they only
    use colors like red, green, blue, and purple in the annual report. 8^o>

    > Anybody has any idea will it be in RED or in black?

     According to the Nightly Business Report, Smith Barney downgraded us
from a "neutral" to a "void", and changed our predicted loss from 80 cents
per share to $1.75 per share.  That is what allegedly caused our 2 1/4 point
drop in one day last week.

                                    Greg

    make that "avoid".
    
    You can read the report itself in SUBWAY::DIGITAL_INVESTING.  That's
    the conference that discusses Digital stock and Digital-related
    investing issues.

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>Note 1832.2          DEC's 3rd quarter FY92 financial report              2 of 2
>IMTDEV::BRUNO "Father Gregory"                        8 lines  31-MAR-1992 15:16
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    -< I won't vouch for the facts, but... >-
>
>    > Anybody has any idea will it be in RED or in black?
>
>     According to the Nightly Business Report, Smith Barney downgraded us
>from a "neutral" to a "void", and changed our predicted loss from 80 cents

I think that's    to  "avoid".  Point well made, though.

>per share to $1.75 per share.  That is what allegedly caused our 2 1/4 point
>drop in one day last week.
>
>                                    Greg
> 

     OK, you opportunistic barracudas :-), it was AVOID.  Anyway, it was
not a good development.

                                      Greg

    Perhaps it was OVOID as in "DEC is about to lay an OVOID object with
    it's upcoming Q3 report." Thus, since Wall Street hates ovoid objects 
    in company finacials, the Journal could be imagined to report "A VOID"
    as a diplomatic way of saying " sell out immediately all you fools who
    have any of this stock!" What I say is "avoid the ovoid, it'll leave
    a void in your portfolio." I know, I know, this note is about investing
    not terrible puns. Forgive me.
    

    Re .6

    Are you, albeit in a very convoluted way, trying to imply that Digital
    has just laid an egg?

    Jamie.

   Re:  <<< Note 1832.7 by HOO78C::ANDERSON "I hate quotation - R W Emerson 1849" >>>

I don't know what .6 intended, but I will say that based on the
fact that over a hundred forecasted 6xxx systems were never
confirmed for shipment, there was a serious shortfall in that
part of the business at any rate.

Dick

    Guess this means we should forget the bonus,huh? Oh well,more layoffs
    on the way!
    
    Ken

    BusinessWeek, April 13, 1992, page 88D, third article entitled: DEC: A
    CONSULTING ARM ACROSS THE SEA: "analysts predict [Digital] will lose as
    much as $90M this quarter"

    Re: .- `awk '{print $0}' | grep -i void`
    
    Maybe it was not VOID or AVOID or OVOID, but in actuality it was NOID.
    So what they were really saying was "AVOID the NOID"!!!
    
    (sorry, but the punster strikes again, hah hah hah hah!!!)

    talk about laying an egg...see 1432
    
    Mark